It has been said that you can find all of Japan on Sado Island. There is the refined culture of Kyoto in the form of Noh theater and second-to-none mumyoi-yaki ceramics. There are onsen hot springs and snowy winters similar to what you might find in Tohoku and Hokkaido. And the clear emerald seas here rival those of subtropical Okinawa.
Yet Sado is also unlike any other Japanese island I have visited. About the size of Singapore but home to just 50,000 people, it lies off Honshu’s northwest coast in the
